Bacon, Venancio

Venancio “Anciong” Bacon

(12-Oct-1912 –

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Martial arts (arnis) master;

One of the disciples of Lorenzo Saavedra in the Labangon Fencing Clug, Bacon broke away from others in the club who had formed the Doce Pares group and in 1951 started the Balintawak Eskrima he named after the street where his gym was located;